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Newly updated as of this evening, the Top 25 Inspirational Films of all time includes films all the way up to present day, including one playing in theaters right now. Enjoy!

Talk about extremism. People ask me when I traveled through the occupied territories if I was afraid of terrorists. I always found this amusing. The answer is no. The Palestinians don't scare me and they're not terrorists. Under international law, as an occupied people, they have the right to resist the occupation by any and all means possible. Besides, the Muslim faith prohibits attacking someone who hasn't shown a hostility toward you and as a Christian, I'm considered a sister and of the book.

However, the Israelis do frighten me and this very short piece in Haaretz illustrates why. Israel is also the only country in the world that can kill Americans and get away with it. The last time I looked at the stats, (2005) the state of Israel had murdered 40 Americans in cold blood between 1967 and 2005. They've never been held accountable for a single one and these people cover all three faiths: Christianity, Islam and Judaism. The extremism demonstrated in this article is a belief held by approximately 30% of the Israeli population, and a key belief with the terror wielding settler movement. They do not consider non-Jewish people to be fully human and feel justified in killing whether the person is one day old or 100. To make their case, they twist scripture and take passages out of context, the same way the Christian Right promotes its justifications for hatred and groups like the Taliban theirs. No, the Jewish faith doesn't promote this, but like all faiths, it can be twisted to justify evil and that's what this Rabbi is doing. It's what Pat Robertson and John Hagee do in the US with Christianity and its what the Taliban and extremist Imams do with Islam. Wouldn't it be nice if we could take all these apostate religious leaders and put them together on an island where they can only hurt themselves? Then the rest of us could get on with the business of living without the need to hate.

This is actually interesting. While I was living in Saudi Arabia last year, a petition was filed to allow women to drive. 500 women signed it. A week later, 5000 women said they didn't want to drive.
Ironically the educated classes, including the King and others in royalty within Saudi Arabia have been trying to steer the country toward greater equality with sexes. This university is one example and if you walk through National Guard Hospital (took me 2.5 hours to walk from one side to another), you'd never guess you were in Saudi Arabia. People from over 50 nations work there, English is the professional language and men and women work side by side. It's the people of Saudi Arabia that have been fighting it, not the government. This is actually a very brave stance for the king to make.

I must say it's much easier to identify where people are from in the US than in England for me. While in England they told me I had an accent! Moi? No way! I speak perfect Western American English. Oh, I guess that means I do have an accent!

If you're Christian like I am, you've probably noticed the increasing chasm in our faith. It's become a faith of hatred, racism, war...the exact opposite of Christ. The problem is Dispensationalism, a new reading of scripture that started in 1832. This is not Christianity. It uses Christianity and nearly half of American Christians have fallen for it. Nearly all 'Christian' programming and publications promote this. Most, but not all Evangelical churches have become swallowed by it. Largest mainline churches that have gone over to the dark side of dispensationalism are the Southern Baptists, Calvary Chapel, Four Square, most of the non-denominational community churches. They attract the most religious. It becomes a cult feeding upon itself and its victims, the church-goers lap up the promises of non-biblical ideas like rapture and non-christian ideas such as returning to the old covenant. I made the mistake of joining a Christian group on Linked In. It was so full of dispensationalists and people giddy on war, Israel and hating Arabs, Palestinians, Muslims and Catholics, I left after two months. Reason doesn't work with them because if their belief system is shown for what it is, then question everything. It's a convenient scapegoat. This article gives you the background. Fortunately 2/3's of the people in the US have not been brainwashed by this. We can reverse it, I just hope it happens before these people through their support of wars and worship of political powers, destroy the US and Israel. They will. War, death and destruction in hopes of forcing a second coming is all they care about. They're willing to kill, and they do kill. Their weapons are our military, our nuclear military.

If you have kids that are in roommate situations or are looking to sublet a room
or rent an apartment, please read this and get it out there. I don't want to
see this happen to anyone else. I didn't lose much money but I did lose the
time I needed to find a roommate and that's costing me big time. It ends with a
threat and some pretty vile language. Feedback is always appreciated.

Take the test and find out if you are more right brained then left or vice versa. You might be surprised. Fun article with lots of good info you can put to use now.

Robert Fisk is my favorite journalist and I just love the satire that sings through this piece. I guess like a lot of people I hoped things would be different with Obama. That my nation is trying to squash the UN report noting Israel's ever increasing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Palestine shouldn't surprise me. But it does. It shouldn't surprise me because we're doing many of the same things in Iraq and Afghanistan, which means if Israel is guilty, we're guilty too. So of course we have to bury that and pretend that what we're doing is righteous and correct. There is nothing righteous about the conduct of my nation or Israel in the Middle East. Maybe, as Fisk points out here the Canadians will figure out they need to abandon this train wreck an stop siding with the problem in both areas.